Backend Developer

Role & responsibilities

• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic.
• Experience writing, maintaining and integrating REST APIs written in Node.js.
• Experience building and maintaining high-traffic APIs, writing performant code and crafting efficient database queries.
• Understand the current application infrastructure and suggest changes to it.
• Experience in performance measurement and monitoring for application availability, speed, errors.
• Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance.
• Strong notions of security best practices (e.g., using IAM Roles etc.).
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic in Node.js
• Write readable, testable, and efficient node.js code
• Work remotely, perform autonomously, and keep the team and project stakeholders informed diligently.

Experience and Skills

• AWS Architecture Development
• AWS Infra: EC2, S3, Route53, CloudFormation, DynamoDB
• AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway
• Kubernetes, EKS, Fargate
• Authorization and Authentication with AWS Cognito
• JavaScript, Node.js, Express, Jest
• The serverless approach using AWS Lambda is a plus. For example, Serverless/SLSS.
• DevOps: Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, CD/CI, JIRA
• Airflow, AWS Step functions
• Working knowledge in Python3 and Go are a plus

We are looking for

• Strong experience in designing and building microservices for frontend products/clients
• Relational Databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL). Familiarity with spatial data queries
• Experience with location, mapping based libraries like Mapbox, Leaflet, HERE Maps, OpenStreetMap is a plus.
• Experience with REST APIs, GraphQL, Postman tests, JSON
• Experience with payment APIs like Stripe
• Understanding of Agile (Scrum) Methodology
• Strong experience in Node.js and frameworks available for it
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as React, CSS.
• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Strong verbal and written communication skills